Stampin Up Seas the Day CAS Less but Better for Double Trouble Challenge #164

Today is my second installment as guest designer for Double Trouble Challenge for Challenge 164 which is CAS Less but Better.  CAS is a little hard for me to create.  I like inky and I am pretty messy.  The Twisted Sister twist did help a bit, use color cardstock for the "white" space.  As you can see, that worked for me.

Here is the prompt from Double Trouble Challenge 164.  You can find all the details following the link.

I recently acquired this Stampin Up set.  There are so many wonderful layered cards with the set, however, I easily envisioned this CAS design with the deep sea creatures featured on a shimmer ink splatter.

I created a second card with the same set, different creature and colors.  You can see why I am not a fan of CAS.  After I was completely done, I smeared ink at the bottom toward the left.  It's visible in the photo but really apparent in person as the ink is black.  I was also a bit disappointed with the ink I used for the sentiment.  It is the same as the jellyfish but it does not "pop" off the shimmer spray.  Again, in real life all the shimmer inks and sprays do look very pretty.

Another view of the iridescent inked jelly fish and sentiment.

Here are both cards.

Ingredients:

Stampin Up Seas the Day stamps and dies

Scrapbook.com Vacation cardstock

Tim Holtz Distress inks: Peacock Feathers, Salvage Patina and Tumbled Glass

Tattered Angels Dazzling Diamonds glimmer mist

Stampin Up Crisp Cantaloupe ink

Versafine Onyx Black

Radiance White Cover stock from Marco's

jellyfish-Brillance Pearlescent Purple and Pearlescent Twilight ink

Play along with Double Trouble Challenge #164 "CAS Less But Better"  from Monday, April 15th - thru Sunday, April 28th.  And also played along with The Crafter's Cafe.

THING  2:  Double Dare 

says, "If you have met Thing 1's requirement to create a CAS project you are eligible to enter your project HERE for The Crafter's Cafe Challenge #307 "CAS" and you will qualify for an additional chance in our random drawing.  

Special Notes:  April 15th is the start of The Crafter's Cafe Challenge and their challenge runs through May 12th. Double Trouble  partnership for this challenge will end on April 28th

In addition I would like to enter into the following challenges:

https://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-2024-challenge-64-anything-goes.html until 4.30x

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-2024-anything-goes-wopitional.html until 4.30x

https://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-2024-and-dlart-thankful-thursday.html until 4.30

https://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-challenge-use-die.html until 5.4x

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-2024-anything-goes-w-optional.htmluntil 5.4x

https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/04/challenge-75.html until 5.8x

Thanks for stopping by

Alicia